Before her mother's grave, she swore a blood oath: her mother's killer would pay, no matter the cost.
She entered the palace selection, but her beauty made the powerful wary, and an oral decree sent her to the Laundry Bureau.
In coarse clothes, with her hands submerged in cold water, she gritted her teeth and survived.
Until the day the clothes of her enemy, Liu Hanyan, arrived at the Laundry Bureau.
She carried a tray into the imperial garden, a silver needle hidden in her sleeve.
But the Ninth Prince suddenly barged in, ruining everything.
She couldn't accept defeat. If she couldn't kill Liu Hanyan, then she'd get close to her.
With a painting of moonlight over a crabapple tree and a pair of deft hands with a silver needle, she transformed from a lowly palace maid in the Laundry Bureau into Liu Hanyan's trusted embroiderer.
Liu Hanyan thought she'd raised an obedient dog, never realizing she'd let a wolf into her den.
